As we have already said many times, the public spaces in Madrid are lacking the color green. With the renovation of the plazas in the center of the city many trees have disappeared, to make room for cold slabs of granite, more desireable in the commercialization of a space, which in theory is for everyone, but in practice is reserved for the brand names so that they can sell us their particular vision of entertainment in the street…

With our intervention Dry leaves over urban grey we wanted to add a little bit of nature, to our grey surroundings, placing dried leaves packaged in the form of cushions so that all who wanted to sit and contemplate the night could do so without becoming cold.

We carried out our installation on the 2nd of December, that same afternoon we collected thousands of fallen leaves in a nearby park, with which we made our cushions and at midnight we went out into the street to look for especially inhospitable places where we left our only cargo.

We walked the streets for 4 hours and left some 50 cushions in doorways, on benches and steps, outside display windows, in plazas and various corners, all of them dark and without trees.

On our walk we also carried all the extra leaves we did not use so that we could leave them beneath one of the streetlights that have replaced the trees in the urban landscape.

Our friendAlberto de Pedrohelped us with the preparation and accompanied us on our journey, you can see his photos from that night in his blog.